via nytimes.com
A quarter of the children in the US are on Food Stamps. Clearly, the solution is to have fewer children.
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1) AppleTV had to be resynchronized; could just pick up where I left off.
2) Time Machine couldn't pickup where it left off on the other computer.
3) Time Machine is taking forever…. I.e., Apple stuff is hard, everything else (The third party stuff.) has gone well.
2) Time Machine couldn't pickup where it left off on the other computer.
3) Time Machine is taking forever…. I.e., Apple stuff is hard, everything else (The third party stuff.) has gone well.
The day started with a 10k, Run To Feed The Hungry. 30,000 of my closest friends came out for the 5k or 10k.
What you have to understand is that Sacramento is more than willing to shut down major streets to accommodate a run. It's pretty cool.
Here are some random shots:
The run went right by LEWJ's, so I had a hospitable Bio break location. Plus breakfast, courtesy of Lilah, after.
A few weeks ago I broke the screen on my laptop. I immediately pinged some friends at Apple to see what the current friends and family discounts looked like. I also started looking at the Craigslist ads.
Within a day or two I found someone selling a current generation MacBook Pro 15" for about $500 below list and about $650 below the out the door cost. Hmm. Not so cheap that I think it's hot, but a real good deal. And, cheaper than the smaller laptop I was thinking about getting from Apple.
I then spent a week and a half trying to connect with the fellow and today, finally, I was successful.
Now that I have the thing, I needed to copy all my data and settings from my old Mac to the new one.
Apple makes something called the Migration Assistant. Very cool. All your documents, Applications (aside from the 'built-in' apps, which aren't touched.), settings, passwords, etc. are just copied over from one Mac to the other.
Here's how the evening went.
1) Wipe drive on new Mac, install current OS. (10.6)
2) While the install is happening, go for a run. (No prompts in the middle of the install were waiting for me when I got back. They ask you everything up front…)
3) Start Migration Assistant. You're prompted to do this after a fresh OS install. I used one of my backup drives which was a clone of the Mac hard drive.
4) While that migration is happening, I go to dinner, pick Molly up at the train station, run to Fry's to get a FireWire 800 − 400 cable and come back.
5) Install software updates to get Mac to version 10.6.2
All done. My total time at the computer managing all this was 20 minutes. Total time to get it all done was about three hours.
So far all the primary programs I use are humming along without a problem. There are a few minor glitches - the Mac isn't seeing the AppleTV. And I forgot to deauthorize the old Mac with iTunes. But basically, I'm up and running.
Now, a few months ago I swore I wouldn't do this again. The downside to this migration is you're bringing over a lot of cruft from years past. But I don't have a week to mess around with this stuff, so I took the easy way out.
Jake Tapper, via Twitter, points out that visiting relatives isn't the same thing as being on vacation. He wondered what the right term would be.
Jake Tapper (@jaketapper):11/24/09 5:17 AM
So far top nominee for name 4 family visits = Oy veycation. Also liked: enhanced interrogation techniques. thanks for the laughs, tweeps.